Uttarakhand

The reason we planned the Uttarakhand roadtrip last winters was for snow in Auli. In fact, we had booked Kashmir initially, but owing to the ongoing disturbances and curfews, we cancelled the Kashmir bookings, and went for Auli instead, thinking that the next best place for snow in the week […]

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Auli would be the final climb of our Uttarakhand road-trip, post which, we were to drive back to Gurgaon with a night’s halt in Hrishikesh. Drive from Pokhari to Auli This would be another long arduous drive – about 125 kms that would take, perhaps, a little more than 4 […]

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After Kausani (Read: Sight-seeing in Kausani), our next stop in the Uttarakhand road trip was Pokhari. Perched on the high hills of the Chamoli district, Pokhari is a little village….. Drive from Kausani to Pokhari It took us quite some time to reach there – almost 140 kms away, the […]

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Well, there are plenty of things to do in Kausani, but you need to be young at heart to do them all. Especially, have a zest for life. From the fact that you have chosen Kausani to be your stopover in your Uttarakhand sojourn, I assume, you like going off […]

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Going past Kathgodam, Bhimtal, Almora, Kausani is a little less than 150kms from Haldwani, and is a total of about 4 and a half hours’ drive. Owing to the long drive the previous evening, Delhi to Haldwani, and the chill of the December morning, we could manage to start from […]

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We were scheduled to stay in Kausani for 2 days-3nights. And chose to stay at Ashritha. They have a view to kill for. I will come to that…. But first, the basics – we were travelling with friends and had been assigned our respective rooms on the 1st floor. Each […]

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The winter round of the Uttarakhand roadtrip started from Delhi. Our friends were waiting for us at the airport with the Mahindra’s XUV 500 we hired for the trip from Zoom Car. This time round, you see, we wanted to drive. A big car, it kept us, four adults and […]

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During our Uttarakhand roadtrip last summers, we didn’t go to any of the regular tourist towns. And hence no Nainitaal, Almora, Ranikhet etc. However, this meant, we wouldn’t get to go to the regular shopping areas too. The offbeat road we took, starting from Jeolikote and going on to Abbott […]